We had a great Halloween. My kids love getting dressed up, then getting candy on top of that! It has also given me an opportunity to edit pics. I have found that is addicting! It's amazing what you can do with editing software. So, back to Halloween. Tommy was Luigi (from Super Mario Bros), Caroline was (what else) a ballerina and Elise was Hannah Montana (who wore vampire teeth all night!). That gave most adults a shock. This cute little blonde dressed up as Hannah Montana, but when she said, "Trick or Treat" all you could see were green vampire teeth. She keeps us laughing!
Tommy and Grant (who have been friends since before they could walk) conspired to be Mario and Luigi. Luckily Grant's mom (Ashley) and I figured it out before Halloween so we could take advantage of the photo opportunity! Before we went Trick or treating we stopped by their house for pics.These two were funny. Can you tell they are very comfortable with each other?
Now back to Halloween...Then it was off to trick or treat. Heather, Will and William went with us to Sewanee to trick or treat with another set of friends. William was Dumbo (which was Tommy's first halloween costume and he screamed the WHOLE time he had it on! William being so sweet and even tempered was happy as could be.) Heather wore the girls purple wig, but she did, at one point, have my kids convinced that she had cut and died her hair.
Then this morning after the kids were at school, I was trying to get the kitchen under control when I noticed the [huge] bowl of Halloween candy was not in the pantry. I knew that couldn't be good. Heath went looking for it and quickly came and told me I needed to see. So I grab the camera and follow him upstairs to Tommy's room. On the table in his room (which he usually uses for Legos), was part of the Halloween candy, sorted into piles.
He is something else. Truly, I am glad that the bowl was discovered in his room, because he cares very little about eating it. He will sort it (because he is known to have OCD tendencies), then use his tractors to scoop it, etc. If it had been found in Caroline's room, well, it would be 3/4 eaten and I would have a little girl with a belly ache! Oh, the differences in kids!
As I said at the beginning, I have been playing with picture editing. As I laid in bed Halloween night, I realized I had not taken a pic of my just 3 kids together in their costumes. AGGHHH! Then, Sunday morning I realized I actually may be able to solve that problem. I remembered I had seen something on the photo editing software that would "clone" part of a picture. So, after playing with it, I figured it out. Below is the picture I started with. The very first pic at the top was my end product. I need to practice with it a bit more, because if you look close, you can tell by the bricks behind the kids that something was done. But, it solved my problem of not having all 3 kids in the same pic!
you did a great job on the editing! and thanks for my post . . .
I thought the bricks on my front porch looked funny in that first pic. I never considered it to be edited, though. Thanks for posting the picture of Tommy and Grant. It's so sweet to remember them as babies together. I think they will truly be lifelong friends.